Nuremberg and the Main Danube Canal

Well, it was a leisurely morning as we were about to embark on the Main-Danube Canal.
For those nor familiar with this portion of river travel in Bavaria, Germany I will explain as well as I can. The canal goes from Kelheim to Bamberg.
The Danube and the Main River were quite a ways apart and over the continental divide.
The distance was about 106 miles.
The canal was started and stopped numerous times from the around 800 AD to final completion in 1999. The canal joins the Danube River to the Main River.  Now large cruise ships and tankers can go from the North Sea to the Black Sea with no problem.
That is if you discount the locks. The Main-Danube Canal of 106 miles has 16 locks. Some of the locks are quite high. Three of them are 81 feet from top to bottom.
Enough of the history of the canal, lets get out of this boring stuff.

The pictures below are in a lock and just after we leave the lock.

As we cruised through the canal we had a fellow on board to explain the locks and navigation systems over the years and how the current system works.

We left the ship in the early afternoon at a small town called Roth to drive to Nuremberg while the ship

navigated a number of locks to join us in Nuremberg.

Below are a couple of street pictures, in Nuremberg, that look like the street pictures in a lot of the German/Austrian cities.

One of the blokes on the ship mentioned to the cruise director that we had seen another ABC.
The director said, oh, "Another Beautiful Church?" The bloke said no, "Another Bloody Church"
Well, here is another one.

Throughout our journey so far, we have encountered the most friendly people you could imagine. I mean from the ships crew to the local folk in Hungary, Slovakia, Austria and Germany. We could not have felt more welcome in these foreign places than if we had been with family. Thanks to all.

Our tour of Nuremberg was to be over in the late afternoon when we would return to the bus to meet the ship in Nuremberg. Unfortunately the ships progress from Roth to Nuremberg was delayed a few times due to lock congestion.
We had to stay in Nuremberg and eat sausage and drink beer or wine for a couple of hours while awaiting our ship.
This is some of us waiting to be transported to the ship.

With all this delay, all y'all (Texas talk) have probably figured out the word of the day.
No!!!  Well, the word is "patience". We needed that today, especially Sonja when looking for her red wine.
Happy birthday to June from Edmonton who turned 49 today.

Finally back on the ship, and a late dinner over, we were entertained by Thorston Lohrer with lively rock music and then off to bed.

Tomorrow its off to Bamberg and the end of the Main-Danube Canal.